PONTIFICAL GRADUATION AND MOVING UP HIGH MASS

By
HIS GRACE THE MOST REVEREND
BISHOP EMERITUS FILOMENO G. BACTOL

Graduation and Moving up is a beginning of an arduous mission ahead. Like

our Lord Jesus who was sent by the Father to preach the Gospel, the graduates and
completers are also invited by Him with wisdom and knowledge necessary in their
mission, the graduates and completers will come again to praise and thank Him.

Looking back to the bittersweet memories, the graduates and completers of

Batch 2019 have journeyed and braved the realities of life. And embarking their next
trip to life, we pray that God will shower them with grace and guidance. Being one
with them, we offer this gathering on the table of the Father to all graduates and
completers Batch 2019. And so we all stand to welcome Christ in the person of His
minister, His Excellency The Most Reverend Bishop Emeritus Filomeno G. Bactol
together with the concelebrating priests as we sing the entrance hymn.

Entrance Song:

ECCE SACERDOS MAGNUS

I
Ecce sacerdos magnus,
ecce sacerdos magnus
Qui in diebus suis,
Qui in diebus suis
Plaquit deo

II
Ideo jurejando fecit illum dominus
Crescere, crescere, crescere
Crescere, in plebem suam

III
Benedictionem omnium,
Gentium Dedit illi;
Et testamentum suum
Confimavit, supercaput ieus
(Repeat II)

IV
Gloria patri et filio,
et spiritui sancto.
(Repeat II)

INTRODUCTORY RITE

Celebrant: In the name of the father, and of the son, and of the Holy Spirit.

All: Amen

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 PENITENTIAL ACT

Celebrant: Brethren (brothers and sisters), lets us acknowledge our sins, and
so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.

All: I confess to Almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I
have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words in what I have
done and in what I have failed to do, through my fault, through my fault,
through my most grievous fault; therefore, I ask blessed Mary Ever-
Virgin, all the angels and saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to
pray for me to the Lord our God.

(To be sung)

LORD HAVE MERCY

Lord have mercy on us

Christ have mercy on us
Lord have mercy on us

Celebrant: May Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and
bring us to everlasting life.

All: Amen.

(When this hymn is concluded, with hands joined say :)

Celebrant: Let us pray

(And all pray in silence with the priest for a while) (Then the priest,
with hands extended, says the collect prayer, at the end of which the
people acclaim :)

Celebrant: Almighty ever-living God,

who gave us the Paschal Mystery
in the covenant you established
for reconciling the human race
so dispose our minds, we pray,
that what we celebrate by professing the faith
we may express in deeds.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.

All: Amen.

THE LITURGY OF THE WORD

Commentator: Please be seated and let us listen to the word of God.

Ruby N. Urbano: A reading from the book of Wisdom.

(Wis 2, 1.12-22)

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 The wicked said among themselves, thinking not aright:
“Let us beset the just one, because he is obnoxious to us;
He sets himself against our doings,
Reproaches us for transgressions of the law and charges us with
violations of our training.
He professes to have knowledge of God and styles himself a child of
the Lord.
To us he is the censure of our thoughts; merely to see him is a hardship
for us,
Because his life is not like others men’s, and different are his ways.
He judges us debased; he holds aloof from our paths as from things
impure.
He calls blest the destiny of the just and boasts that God is his Father.
Let us see whether his words be true; let us find out what will happen
to him.
For if the just one be the son of God, he will defend him and deliver
him from the hand of his foes.
With revilement and torture let us put him to the test that we may have
proof of his gentleness and try his patience.
Let us condemn him to a shameful death; for according to his own
words, God will take care of him.”
These were their thoughts, but they erred; for their wickedness blinded
them, and they knew not the hidden counsels of God; neither did they
count on a recompense of holiness nor discern the innocent souls’
reward. The Word of the Lord.

All: Thanks be to God.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM

All: The Lord is near to broken hearts.

Jumylene Lex A. Lopez:
The lord confronts the evildoers, to destroy remembrance of them from
the earth.
When the just cry out, the Lord hears them, and from all their distress
he rescues them.

All: The Lord is near to broken hearts.

Jumylene Lex A. Lopez:
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; and those who are crushed in
spirit he saves.
Many are the troubles of the just man, but out of them all the Lord
delivers him.
All: The Lord is near to broken hearts.
Jumylene Lex A. Lopez:
He watches over all his bones; not one of them shall be broken.
The Lord redeems the lives of his servants; no one incurs guilt who
takes refuge in him.
All: The Lord is near to broken hearts. (2x)

Commentator: The storm of hostility against Jesus is brewing. He is fully aware

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 of it. Nothing can stop him from doing the Father’s will. Please rise to
honor the Holy Gospel.

WE WILL HEAR

We will hear
Your word one in love
We will live
Your word one in love
we will spread
your word one in love.

GOSPEL

Celebrant: The Lord be with you.

All: And with your Spirit.

Celebrant: A reading from the holy Gospel according to John

(Jn 7, 1-2.10.25-30)

All: Glory to you O Lord.

Celebrant:

Jesus moved about within Galilee. He had decided not to travel in

Judea because some of the Jews were looking for a chance to kill him. The
Jewish feast of Booths drew near. Once his brothers had gone up to the
festival he too went up, but as if in secret and not for all to see.
Some of the people of Jerusalem remarked, “is this not the one they
want to kill? Here he is speaking in public and they don’t say a word to
him! Perhaps even the authorities have decided that this is the Messiah.
Still, we know where this man is form. When the Messiah comes, no one
is supposed to know his origins.”
At this, Jesus, who was teaching in the temple area, cried out:
“So you know me,
And you know my origins?
The truth is, I have not come of myself.
I was sent by One who has the right to send,
and him you do not know. I know him because it is from him I
come:
he sent me.”
At this day tried to seize him, but no one laid a finger on him
because his hour had not yet come.

Celebrant: The Gospel of the Lord.

(Then he kisses the book, saying quietly :)

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Celebrant: Through the words of the Gospel may our sins be wiped away.

Commentator: Please be seated and listen to the homily.

HOMILY
(by: His Excellency The Most Reverend Bishop Emeritus Filomeno G. Bactol)

Commentator: Please stand.

CREED

All: I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of Heaven and
earth, of all things visible and invisible.

I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God,
born of the Father before all ages. God from God, light from light, true
God from true God, begotten not made, consubstantial with the Father;
through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation he
came down from heaven, and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the
Virgin Mary, and became man.

For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate, he suffered

death and was buried, and rose again on the third day in accordance
with the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right
hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and
the dead and his kingdom will have no end.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who
proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son
is adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets.

I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. I confess

one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins and I look forward to the
resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen.

PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL

Celebrant: Let us fill our hearts to the Father, who wanted to make things new
through his risen Son Jesus Christ, and for every petition our
response will be Have mercy on your people, Lord:

All: HAVE MERCY ON YOUR PEOPLE, LORD

Ma. Angela G. Sevilla:

For the church, community of Christ,
That it may always be to all people
God’s sign of love, hope and forgiveness.
Let us pray to the Lord….

All: HAVE MERCY ON YOUR PEOPLE, LORD

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Ma. Angela G. Sevilla:

That the peace with the Risen Lord brought to his

apostles be given to the people of the world
Let us pray to the Lord….

All: HAVE MERCY ON YOUR PEOPLE, LORD

Katrine Faye C. Paujana:

For the leaders of nations,
and for all prominent in politics and trade,
that by their concern for justice and peace
that may serve the happiness of all.
Let us pray to the Lord…

All: HAVE MERCY ON YOUR PEOPLE, LORD

Ma. Angela G. Sevilla:

For the many who are uprooted today,
victims of war, oppression, natural and man-made disasters,
prisoners, migrants, and homeless,
that they may find hope in our concern for justice
and feel the warmth or our love,
Let us pray to the Lord…

All: HAVE MERCY ON YOUR PEOPLE, LORD

Ma. Angela G. Sevilla:

That we may help the needy and feed them
in body and Spirit.
Let us pray to the Lord…

All: HAVE MERCY ON YOUR PEOPLE, LORD

Ma. Angela G. Sevilla:

That the sick and the handicapped may receive comfort
and hope from those who assist them.
Let us pray to the Lord…

All: HAVE MERCY ON YOUR PEOPLE, LORD

Ma. Angela G. Sevilla:

For us who gathered here
and for all Christian communities,
that the goodness and love of Jesus
may be alive and visible among us
because God has been good to us.
Let us pray to the Lord.

All: HAVE MERCY ON YOUR PEOPLE, LORD

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Celebrant: Lord, our God day after day we experience your incredible love.
Hear our prayers and make us worthy of your love, through Jesus
Christ, our Lord.

All: Amen.

Commentator: Please be seated and we will continue the mass with the Liturgy
of the Eucharist.

LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST

HA IMO LA
I
Dayawon ka, O Ginoo hadi han ngatanan
Ginoo nga Diyos ikaw la an angay tagan han am’
Pagpasalamat.

II
Ginhimo mo an tawo labaw han ngatanan
Imo hiya gintagan hin katungdanan ug kadungganan
Labaw han ngatanan

III
Ha imo la o Ginoo an amon pagtoo,
Kami nadangup ha imo
Ikaw gud la an baton han am’ mga pag-ampo.

(Repeat Chorus)

Commentator: Please all rise.

PREPARATION OF THE GIFTS:

Celebrant: Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation, for through your
goodness we have received the bread we offer you: fruit of the earth
and work of human hands, it will become for us the bread of life.

All: Blessed be God forever.

Celebrant: By the mystery of this water and wine may we come to share in the
divinity of Christ who humbled himself to share in our humanity.

All: Blessed be God forever.

Celebrant: Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation, for through your
goodness we have received the wine we offer you: fruit of The vine
and work of human hands, it will become our spiritual drink.

All: Blessed be God forever.

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Celebrant: Pray, brethren (brothers and sisters), that my sacrifice and yours
may be acceptable to God, the Almighty Father.

All: May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands for the praise and glory
of his name, for our good and the good of all his Holy Church.

(Then the priest, with hands extended, says the prayer over the
offerings, at the end of which the people acclaim :)

Celebrant: Perfect within us, O Lord we pray,

the solemn exchange brought about by these paschal offerings,
that we may be drawn from earthly desires
to a longing for the things of heaven.
Through Christ our Lord.

All: Amen.

PREFACE I OF EASTER

Celebrant: The Lord be with you.

All: And with your Spirit.

Celebrant: Lift up your hearts.

All: We lift them up to the Lord.

Celebrant: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

All: It is right and just.

Celebrant: It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation,
at all times to acclaim you, O Lord,
but on this day above all
to laud you yet more gloriously,
when Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.

For He is the true Lamb

who has taken away the sins of the world;
by dying he has destroyed our death,
and by the rising, restored our life.

Therefore, overcome with paschal joy,

every land, every people exults in your praise
and even the heavenly Powers, with the angelic hosts,
sing together the unending hymn or your glory,
as they acclaim:

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 (To be sung)

HOLY

Holy, Holy, Holy Lord

God of power and might,
Heaven and Earth are
full of your glory…
Hossana in the Highest
blessed is He, who
comes in the name of
the Lord…
Hossana in the Highest.

Commentator: (Please remain standing).

EUCHARISTIC PRAYER III

(Holding his hands extended over the offerings, he says :)

Celebrant: You are indeed Holy, O Lord,

and all you have created
rightly gives you praise,
for through your Son our Lord Jesus Christ,
by the power and working of the Holy Spirit,
you give life to all things and make them holy,
and you never cease to gather a people to yourself,
so that from the rising of the sun to its setting
a pure sacrifice may be offered to your name.
(He joins his hands and holding them extended over the offerings, says:)
therefore, O Lord, we humbly implore you:
by the same Spirit graciously make holy
these gifts we have brought to you for consecration,
(He joins his hands and makes the Sign of the Cross once over the bread and chalice
together, saying:)
that they may become the Body and Blood
of your Son our Lord Jesus Christ,
(He joins his hands.)
(In the formulas that follow, the words of the Lord should be pronounced clearly and
distinctly, as the nature of these words requires.)
For on the night he was betrayed
(He takes the bread and, holding it slightly raised above the altar, continues:)
He himself took bread,
And, giving you thanks, he said the blessing,
Broke the bread and gave it to his disciples, saying,
(He bows slightly)
TAKE THIS, ALL OF YOU, AND EAT OF IT,
FOR THIS IS MY BODY,
WHICH WILL BE GIVEN UP FOR YOU.
(He shows the consecrated host to the people, places it again on the paten, and genuflects
in adoration).

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(After this, he continues:)
In a similar way, when supper was ended,
(He takes the chalice and holding it slightly raised above the altar, continues:)
He took the chalice,
And, giving you thanks, he said the blessing,
And gave the chalice to his disciples, saying:
(He bows slightly)
TAKE THIS, ALL OF YOU, AND DRINK OF IT,
FOR THIS IS THE CHALICE OF MY BLOOD,
THE BLOOD OF THE NEW AND ETERNAL COVENANT,
WHICH WILL BE POURED OUT FOR YOU AND FOR MANY
FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS.

DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME.

(He shows the chalice to the people, places it on the corporal, and genuflects in
adoration.)

(Then he says:)

Celebrant: The mystery of faith

(To be sung)

ACCLAMATION

WE PROCLAIM YOUR DEATH

OH, LORD AND PROFESS YOUR
RESURRECTION, UNTIL YOU
COME AGAIN.

(Then the priest, with hands extended, says)

Celebrant: Therefore, O Lord, as we celebrate the memorial

of the saving Passion of your Son,
his wondrous Resurrection
and Ascension into heaven,
and as we look forward to his second coming,
we offer you in thanksgiving
this holy and living sacrifice.

Look, we pray, upon the oblation of your Church

and, recognizing the sacrificial Victim by whose death
you willed to reconcile us to yourself,
grant that we, who are nourished
by the Body and Blood of your Son
and filled with his Holy Spirit,
may become one body, one spirit in Christ.

May he make of us
an eternal offering to you,
so that we may obtain an inheritance with you elect,

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 especially with the most blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God,
with your blessed Apostles and glorious Martyrs
(with Saint N: the Saint of the day or Patron Saint)
and with all the Saints,
on whose constant intercession in your presence
we rely for unfailing help.

May this Sacrifice of our reconciliation,

we pray, O Lord,
advance the peace and salvation of all the world.

Be pleased to confirm in faith and charity

your pilgrim church on earth,
with your servant N. our Pope and N. our Bishop,
the Order of Bishops, all the clergy,
and the entire people you have gained for your own.

Listen graciously to the prayers of this family,

whom you have summoned before you:
in your compassion, O merciful father,
gather to yourself all your children
scattered throughout the world.

To our departed brothers and sisters

and to all who were pleasing to you
at their passing from this life,
give kind admittance to your kingdom.
There we hope to enjoy for ever the fullness of your glory
(He joins his hands.)
through Christ our Lord,
through whom you bestowed on the world all that is good.

(He takes the chalice and the paten with the host and raising both he says:)
Through him, and with him, and in him,
O God, Almighty Father,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
all glory and honor is yours,
for ever and ever.
(The people acclaim:)
(To be sung)

Great Amen

AMEN. AMEN. AMEN.

Celebrant: At the Savior’s command and formed by divine teaching, we dare

to say:
(To be sung)
OUR FATHER

Our Father, who art in heaven.

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 Holy be your name
Your kingdom come, your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread,

and forgive us our sins
as we forgive those
who sin against us
and do not bring us to the test,
but deliver us from evil
Amen.

Celebrant: Deliver us, Lord we pray, from every evil, graciously grant peace
in our days, that, by the help of your mercy, we may be always free
from sin and safe from all distress, as we await the blessed hope and
the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

(To be sung)

DOXOLOGY

For the kingdom, the power and

the glory are yours now and forever.

Celebrant: Lord Jesus Christ, who said to your Apostles; Peace I leave you, my
peace I give you, look not on our sins, but on the faith of your
Church, and graciously grant her peace and unity in accordance
with your will who live and reign for ever and ever.

All: Amen

Celebrant: The peace of the Lord be with you always.

All: And with your Spirit.

Celebrant: Let us offer each other the sign of peace.

All: Peace be with you

(May this mingling of the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ
being eternal life to
us who receive it.)

(To be sung)

LAMB OF GOD

I. Lamb of god you take away the sins of the world

Have mercy on us
(Repeat)

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 II. Lamb of god, you take away the sins of the world,
Have mercy on us
(Repeat II)

III. Lamb of god you take away the sins of the world,
Lord, grant us peace

IV. Lamb of god you take away the sins of the world,
Have mercy on us
Grant us peace
(You take away the sins of the world)

(Then the priest, with hands joined, says quietly :)

Lord Jesus Christ son of the living God who by the will of the Father
and the work of the Holy Spirit, through your death gave life to the
world; free me by this you most Holy Body and Blood, from all my sins
and from every evil, keep me always faithful to your commandments,
and never let me be parted from you.

Celebrant: Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who takes away the sins of
the world. Blessed are those called to the supper of the Lamb.

All: Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only
say the word and my soul shall be healed.

(The priest, facing the altar, says quietly ;)

Celebrant: May the Body of Christ keep me safe for eternal life.
(And he reverently consumes the body Christ.) (Then he takes the
Chalice and says quietly :)
May the Blood of Christ keep me safe for eternal life.
(And he reverently consumes the blood of Christ.)

Commentator: Let us prepare ourselves for the Holy Communion. May I request
for those who will receive the Sacred Body of Christ to form two lines
for both sides and on the center aisle.

C COMMUNION SONG

TINAPAY NG BUHAY
(Panis Vitae)

Chorus:
Jesu panis vitae
donum patris
Jesu fons vitae
fons vitae acquae
cibus et potus noster
cibus et potus noster

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 in itinere in itinere
ad donum dei.
I.
Mula sa lupa
sumibol kang masigla
matapos kang yurakan
ng mga masasama
sumilang ang liwanag
ng mga nawawala
tinapay ng buhay
pagkain ng dukha. (Chorus)
II.
Gikan sa binlud
usa ka tinapay
nga bunga sa among
buhat at kabudlay
hinaut maghiusa
kami sama ni ining tinapay
kiguma kami Jesus
among Ginoong Tunhay. (Chorus)
III.
Jesus food divine
be our strength each day
so we don’t tire us
we witness to your love and care
to those in greater need
both near and far away
may we lead them back to you
and those who’ve gone astray. (Chorus)
IV.
Dalon namong imong balaang pulong
mangalagay kag tudlo
mong matarong
kahayag sang espiritu
sang kamatuuran
suga nga mapawa
sa among dalan. (Chorus)
V.
En la vida Jesus
se a Nuestro Consuelo
se a Nuestro amigo
y compañero
siempre por damos
responder a su llamada
siempre dispues tu hacer
tu voluntad. (Chorus)
VI.
Pagkain ng buhay handog
ng Ama bukal ka ng buhay
batis ng biyaya
maging pagkain samin

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 at inumin ng tanan
sa paglalakbay
naming sa tanan ng Ama. (Chorus)

Commentator: Please stand.

Celebrant: Keep safe, O Lord, we pray,

Those whom you have saved by your kindness
That, redeemed by the Passion of your Son,
They may rejoice in his Resurrection.
Who lives and reigns for ever and ever.

All: Amen.

Commentator: Please be seated. Teachers are requested to stand for the

Teachers’ Thanksgiving Prayer to be led by Mrs. Yasmin Abogado-
Ragay, T-III

TEACHERS’ THANKSGIVING PRAYER

O Lord, our God, we thank you for your perfect love and for sending
your only Son, Lord Jesus Christ, to be our model and great teacher and our brother,
who came into the world to serve and not to be served. Jesus Christ, we praise you
for your wonderful teaching and examples. Through Him, we have tried to become
good teachers to our students by following not our will but the will of our Father.
Today, in one with our students, we rejoice in your Name. Through them, you have
shown us that our patience, love concern, and efforts to instruct and give them our
best are not made in vain. This is our real joy and consolation for in this way we feel
that we are indeed doing your will. Thank you for making us instruments of your
love. May we ever worthy of this task you have entrusted to us. Amen.

Commentator: Teachers, please be seated. Our proud parents are requested to

stand for the Parents’ Thanksgiving Prayer to be led by Mrs.
Elma A. Pilapil.

PARENTS’ THANKSGIVING PRAYER

Almighty and merciful God, we thank you for all the blessings you have given
to us particularly the joy and honor of seeing our sons/daughters claim the prize
which they have labored and suffered for years in this institution in preparation for
the great you have done for us. Thank you for helping us carry the responsibilities
of parenting our children whom you have called to this vocation. Thank you for
being our provider, our guide and our source of strength. Thank you for the joy of
caring our children and for the love we have for them. We pray that our efforts as
parents will be continuously fruitful and pleasant in your sight. Blessed and keep us.
Keep our children in your care. Sustain us in your providence and love. Grant that
we will be able together in your Kingdom. We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.

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Commentator: Proud parents, please be seated. Graduating class is requested to
stand for the Graduates’ Thanksgiving Prayer to be led by Kurt
A. Pilapil (With High Honors-SHS).

GRADUATING CLASS THANKSGIVING PRAYER

Eternal and blessed God, we praise and thank you as we are now ready to
respond more effectively to you. Thank you for all your graces and gifts. Thank you
for giving us the strength, patience, and perseverance in our studies and the
encouragement that enabled us to face the difficulties and temptations in life. Lord,
thank you for giving us wonderful parents, generous benefactors and friends who
are always ready to support. May you keep them away from evil and bless them
Lord. Thank you for our loving teachers who have played a great role in molding us.
Through their encouragement and help, we come to know more clearly with your
divine will. Thank you for fellow graduates, for their camaraderie and love. They
indeed helped us reached this stage of our life and have enriched ourselves for you.
Grant us Lord, the strength and perseverance to steadfast in life’s journey to grow
more into a new and deeper understanding and appreciation of life. Make us more
willing to value sacrifices in life. Above all, we thank you for one another, for
together with God we have indeed journeyed on. All this we praise and thank you
Christ our Lord. Amen.

Commentator: Please all stand. May we request our school head Mr. Richard N.
Laurente, Secondary School Principal III for the Administration
Prayer.

Richard N. Laurente, P-III: Most Reverend Bishop Emeritus Filomeno G. Bactol,

School Head as these students begin a new stage in life, we ask you
to invoke God’s blessing upon their parents,
Guardians and teachers.

Celebrant: Lord, renew your servant with food and drink from heaven. Keep
them faithful as minister of your word and sacraments, as servants
working for greater glory of your name and for the salvation of the
world. Grant this through Christ, our Lord

All: Amen.

Commentator: Parents and Teachers please be seated. Graduating and Completing

Class please remain standing for the blessings.

Celebrant: God, our Father, you are the fountain of knowledge and virtue.
Grant us these sons and daughters whom you filled with divine and
human gifts may dedicate themselves to you and the people with
unfailing generosity and love. Grant this through Christ, our Lord.

All: Amen.

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 (the priest will bless the graduating and completing class
using the HOLY WATER)

GRADUATION AND COMPLETION PROMISES

Commentator: Graduates and Completers covenant.

Celebrant: God’s beloved sons and daughters, I ask you: Do you promise to
live for Jesus Christ who died that we may live?

Graduates & Completers: We do promise.

Celebrant: Do you promise to earnestly love Christ and to serve Him in our
neighbors and home and society?

Graduates & Completers: We do promise.

Celebrant: Do you promise in the midst of the faithless world, to keep your
faith burning in your hearts, to profess steadfastly and to live it
faithfully?

Graduates & Completers: We do promise.

Celebrant: Do you promise to give glory to God every Sunday by

participating in the mass and sharing in the Bread of life with the
Christian Community whenever you can?

Graduates & Completers: We do promise.

Celebrant: Do you promise as member of Christ’s Mystical Body to take part

in building up his Kingdom on earth?

Graduates & Completers: We do promise.

Celebrant: Let us pray that Lord will help you keep the promises you have
just made.

Graduates & Completers: Amen.

Celebrant: Let us pray: Lord we trust in you.

All: Because by your love, you made us and all things for us.

Celebrant: Lord, come into our midst.

All: Make us full trust in your prayer.

Celebrant: Lord, listen to our prayer.

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All: And make it acceptable to you.

Celebrant: Lord, bless these diplomas, the embodiment of your blessings and
graces, concretized by our labor and cooperation. Graciously bless
these candidates for graduation to faithfully practice the feelings
they have learned by serving all in witness to your Holy presence.
We ask these through Christ, our Lord.
(He will bless the diplomas, certificates and medals)

All: Amen.

Commentator: Please be seated. In behalf of the Tanauan School of Craftsmanship

and Home Industries Family through our very active School Principal
Sir Richard N. Laurente, we would like to extend our warmest
gratitude to our very own, His Excellency The Most Reverend
Bishop Emeritus Filomeno G. Bactol in presiding this pontifical
graduation and moving-up high mass. Thank so much Bishop
Emeritus of Naval.
To the concelebrating priests from the Assumption of Our Lady
Parish, Rev. Fr. Den Michael Canaleja and Rev. Fr. Restituto Lumbre
Jr., from the St. Vincent Ferrer Parish Rev. Fr. Al Cris M. Badana, and
from the Divine Lord and Savior Parish Rev. Fr. Armando R. Dagsa.
Thank you so much.
To the Sacred Heart seminarians -to Bro Jhude Anthony Perez, to the
TSCHI Chorale led by Mr. Felicisimo C. Nirza, to the knights of the
altar our very own students of TSCHI serving at the Assumption of
Our Lady Parish and St. Vincent Ferrer Parish , to the Grade 10 and
Grade 12 class advisers headed by Mrs. Teresa C. Balano and Mr.
Cirilo P. Chavez Jr. , to the TSCHI Faculty and Staff, personnel, GPTA
Officers, Parents and to all stakeholders who helped in making this
celebration success. We are in deepest gratitude as always.
At this point, may we request our very own Richard N. Laurente the
head of the TSCHI Family and the most outstanding school principal
of the Division of Leyte. He would be assisted by our respected
Technical Vocational Head, Mrs. Marissa R. Estabillo and the
Academic Department Head Mr. Ferdinand B. Songalia to give our
humble token and certificate as a sign of our gratitude and sincerest
appreciation to our beloved Bishop Emeritus Felomino G. Bactol for
gracing this grand affair with us. The certificate reads ….
Thank you Bishop for your holy presence.

Same certificate will be awarded to our Concelebrating Priests. May we

call in, the Parish priest of the Assumption of Our Lady Parish, Rev.
Fr. Den Michael Canaleja and Rev. Fr. Restituto Lumbre Jr., from the
St. Vincent Ferrer Parish Rev. Fr. Al Cris M. Badana, and from the
Divine Lord and Savior Parish Rev. Fr. Armando R. Dagsa to receive
also our humble token and certificate as a sign of our gratitude and
sincerest appreciation. Thank you so much for your holy presence.

To everyone Gracias, Gracias, Gracias! (Thank you, Thank you, Thank

you!)

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 Please all stand and let us sing the hymn of St. Vincent Ferrer.

HIMNO KAN ST. VINCENT FERRER

San Vicente am’ patron nga santo

Minahal ka han mga parokyano
Adi kami nagsasangpit
Pinaagi hin pag – awit
Agod amon maipa angbit an im’
Gugma nga hingpit

San Vicente nga minayuyo

Dungga gad amon mga pag-ampo
Bag-oha an kinabuhi nga tugway
Tikadto han langitnon na Amay.

O San Vicente nga hinigugma

Aadi kami nagkakanta yana
Tungod han ngatanan na mga grasya
Kay baton ka han mga tinguha ug ungara

Gintagan mo han gahum an Ginoo

Panambal han magsakit na mga tawo
Tungod han imo pagsangyaw
Mga pulong ni Kristo
Damu nga mga kalag adton nasalbar nimo

O San Vicente tabangi kami

An im gugma salirungi kami
Bendisyoni………

THE CONCLUDING RITES

Celebrant: The Lord be with you.

All: And with your Spirit.

Celebrant: Bow your heads and pray for God’s blessing.

May God, who by the Resurrection of his Only Begotten Son

was pleased to confer on you the gift of redemption and of
adoption, give you gladness by his blessing.

All: Amen.

Celebrant: May he, by whose redeeming work

you have received the gift of everlasting freedom,
make you heirs to an eternal inheritance.

All: Amen.

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Celebrant: And may you, who have already risen with Christ
in Baptism through faith,
by living in a right manner on this earth,
be united with him in the homeland of heaven.

All: Amen.

Celebrant: And may the blessing of Almighty God,

the father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit,
come down on you and remain with you for ever.

All: Amen.

Celebrant: Go forth the mass is ended.

All: Thanks be to God.

Recessional Song:

ECCE SACERDOS MAGNUS

I
Ecce sacerdos magnus,
ecce sacerdos magnus
Qui in diebus suis,
Qui in diebus suis
Plaquit deo

II
Ideo jurejando fecit illum dominus
Crescere, crescere, crescere
Crescere, in plebem suam

III
Benedictionem omnium,
Gentium Dedit illi;
Et testamentum suum
Confimavit, supercaput ieus
(Repeat II)

IV
Gloria patri et filio,
et spiritui sancto.
(Repeat II)

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Prepared by:

RUFINO S. ALMADEN
SST-III

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